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I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Henri Matisse
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Henri Matisse
Age: 84 †
Born: 1869
Born: December 31
Died: 1954
Died: November 3
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From the first shock of the contemplation of a face depends the principal sensation which guides me throughout the entire execution of a portrait.
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Impressionism is the newspaper of the soul.
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A young painter who cannot liberate himself from the influence of past generations is digging his own grave.
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Fit the parts together, one into the other, and build your figure like a carpenter builds a house. Everything must be constructed, composed of parts that make a whole.
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A thimbleful of red is redder than a bucketful.
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With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.
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Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue
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I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.
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I want to reach that condensation of sensations that constitutes a picture.
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I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.
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To arrive is to be in prison.
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The model for me is a touchstone, it is a door which I must break open in order to reach the garden in which I am alone and feel good, even the model exists only for what use I can make of it.
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I wouldn't mind turning into a vermilion goldfish.
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What's so astonishing about not understanding? There are so many things in art, beginning with art itself, that one doesn't understand. A painter doesn't see everything that he has put in his painting.
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You must forget all your theories, all your ideas before the subject. What part of these is really your own will be expressed in your expression of the emotion awakened in you by the subject.
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Nothing can be accomplished without love.
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What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.
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